What on your rack is a Mac?

[tabiggs]

1st post Mcintosh Building rack

1st post , I will try to get some new updated pictures since I have added some new pieces.

 

[kach22i]

Wow Tabiggs, that is certainly a dedication to McIntosh and in an actual rack no less.

Is that some sort of A/V nook?

If that were my collection I'd have it on full display in the middle of my room, but color me impressed.

 

[Jimmy P]

I have a couple of mc452's, a Mc501, and a pair of XRT1K's

 

[joeinid]

Welcome to the forum Jimmy!

 

[flez007]

This is a stock photo of the MA6100 I gave to my mother, she uses it on a daily basis.

 

[prerich]

I have two pieces of McIntosh gear MC8207 and MC7205 power amps. These are keepers for me!

 

[Audiohertz2]

Well, I tried to be a McIntosh owner. I bought a C2300 preamp in hopes that it would replace my Counterpoint SA-2 and SA-5.1 combo with a single box solution that had far more gadgets and gizmos than the Counterpoint pair. The C2300 is a good looking piece that will take MC cartridges straight in and allow you to change loading on the fly from the remote. For a preamp with six 12AX7 tubes, the C2300 sounds very much like SS. The sound of my LPs took a nose dive. The only way I could make the phono stage sound half way decent was to use my SA-2 into the MM side of the C2300. I had other C2300 owners tell me that I must use Telefunken 12AX7 tubes and then I would be happy. I wasn't buying that so it went back to Classic Audio. I dealt with Gordon Gow's son, and he told me that he wasn't surprised that I liked my SA-5.1 better. He gave props to the SA-5.1 and said it would take a far more expensive preamp than the C2300 to beat it. He said I would have to go to one of McIntosh's true balanced preamps to beat it. Live and learn.

Mark

An SUT on the phono side for your MC cart would be a big improvement , aside not a fan of any mac pre after the C22 ...!